Re: My first attempt at retro PC

Posted on 2023-05-18, 13:08

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That's a nice looking system for sure. The cable management is definitely not period correct though. Period correct cable management would be to bundle all the cables up (just grab them with one or two hands without sorting them afterwards) and then put a tie rib around them and all done! 🤣

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Re: Should I get a cooling fan for a Voodoo 3 2k?

Posted on 2023-05-18, 12:57

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JayAlien wrote on 2023-05-17, 16:16: I also know a guy who tells me seatbelts are useless as he’s still alive and has never used one. 😉 Don't forget about the guy who's grandfather smoked 5 packs a day for 95 years like a chimney and he never got cancer, so smoking can't be as bad as everybody is …

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Re: Should I get a cooling fan for a Voodoo 3 2k?

Posted on 2023-05-18, 12:55

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by Tetrium

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Pretty straightforward - I'm using one in a P2 Dell Dimension case and it's running fine, but does the PCI 2000 model benefit from a fan, or is it really needed more from the higher clocked models? The slower models typically have smaller heatsinks. The PCI ones seem to require more cooling than …

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Re: Ti- Texas Instruments topic - list your product you have in your collection!

Posted on 2023-05-18, 12:14

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I should have some TI CPUs in my collection. No full Ti systems. And I might indeed still have an old Ti calculator somewhere, but I'm not sure about the latter.

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-17, 08:22

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I suppose it's somewhat like visiting a "living museum" Say a medieval castle, pioneer village, etc. It may give of a somewhat similar feeling, but if nothing else hygiene dictates you can't have the open sewers, people will be much cleaner and healthier therefore the whole experience will be much …

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Re: General advice for building first retro gaming pc

Posted on 2023-05-14, 16:55

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Sorry for bringing back my old thread but it is better to discuss the matter here further instead of making my thread. I have done much more research in the meantime and have some more questions. I think I will go with the ASUS A7V600 as my main motherboard. You guys recommended either an Athlon XP …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-05-14, 11:10

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I do have a rather cool Socket 478 to 423 interposer that lets me use a 2.6Ghz Northwood on a 423 board, it works really well even with the reduced bus speed of the 423 motherboard. I'm considering throwing some high res images of the interposer up here on Vogons for anyone who might be interested …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-13, 09:58

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All my ISA cards still work and they would be easy to fix if they some how stopped working. It’s NOT a secret that PCI video cards were plagued with poor design, bad SMB soldering and manufacturing process. Cheap components like capacitors. That why so many PCI video cards stopped working or …

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Re: Need air flow help in a minitower....

Posted on 2023-05-13, 09:35

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Those PCI slot fans don't do anything when they are somewhere on the bottom\middle of the case. The issue with fans placed in such manners is it may actually make the problem worse instead of better, since fans themselves also produce heat. They are electrical apparatusses after all. Not a lot in …

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Re: Need air flow help in a minitower....

Posted on 2023-05-12, 16:23

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Agreed regarding the dust issue. Just make sure to de-dust your rigs from time to time and you should be fine. Yes, I think cooling is important and the dust can be removed relatively easily. My modern PC has a filter which catches all the dust and it fills up VERY quickly. It's just alarming to …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 16:15

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Speaking of TNT2 M64/Vanta, 3dfx had answer in form of ~$55 Velocity 100. Much better proposition for ss7 users than tnt/tnt2, especially after unlocking second TMU. The problem at that point was STB acquisition - Everyone and their dog were manufacturing cheap noname M64 cards in Taiwan, while …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 16:08

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As far as main rigs are concerned, I went from a Katmai 550MHz to an Athlon64 2.2GHz and the performance differences are almost incomparable 😋 Things went so fast back then.. Sorry, but my K6-2 500 to Thunderbird 1.33 GHz upgrade still wins in terms of performance and stability jump (especially if …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-12, 11:04

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Lately I've been playing C&C Remastered Collection. It's fun playing the GDI campaign again. Good thing they took out the sandbag walls, that made it too easy to gimp the ai. Thus far overall enjoyable :) Good thing I still know all those tricks I used to do back then as well. I'll check what I can …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 10:55

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I wouldn't be surprised if there are some later TNT2 M64 cards out there with memory chips that are binned much higher than the frequency the memory is run at, depending on whatever stock the manufacturer happened to have available at the time. And even more so if TNT2 M64 ever got a die-shrink, …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 09:05

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The TNT2 M64 (broadly speaking any cut down TNT2 card I mean) was produced for a longer while iirc, so build quality and nomenclature accuracy may have degraded as the M64 variants leaned more and more towards being bottom-of-the-barrel products. So at the end of their useful product cycle, some of …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 08:53

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Still no sign of the cut down TNT1 anywhere? What sign? Cut-down TNT were literally normal TNT PCB with half of the memory not soldered. Wait what? That's it? 0.o That's kind of an ehhh... anticlimax, lol! Guess I can be glad I never saw one of those in the flesh. Vanta LT is a cute little card. …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 08:03

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Not all TNT2 M64 cards were build identical. There were many vendors, I must've had in my hands over 200 of them (not exaggerating, probably way more). Depending on the model / ram config / cooling / core&memory clock, the performance would vary drastically, maybe even 50% from card to card. Are …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 07:53

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-05-11, 07:45: NV ever made a cut-down budget version of TNT TNT had cut-down version with 64-bit bus and 8Mb VRAM. Vanta LT was probably direct replacement. Still no sign of the cut down TNT1 anywhere?

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 07:49

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I respect the TNT M64 for it's very late 90s 3D chops, but grind my teeth when I flip open another early atx box looking for treasure and find only a middling P4 and a TNT M64 lol (I think I've accidentally/incidentally collected more TNT M64 than any other combined range now) I can't even describe …

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Re: Can someone help identify this internal Sony floppy drive?

Posted on 2023-05-12, 07:27

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but maybe the whole MPF 42 series are for Mac? I doubt this is the case. From what I remember, floppy drives of the early to mid 90s tended to have model numbers that were the same for any particular generation, but the letters and numbers after that would indicate a sub-variant and these sub- …

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